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The Girls with No Names by Serena Burdick is a heartbreaking historical novel told by three female characters: 12-year-old Effie, her mother Jeanne, and Effie's frenemy Mable.
Inspired by history, the story is set in 1910-1913 Manhattan/New York at the House of Mercy, an âasylum for abandoned and troubled women.â This church-connected institution, and many like it, offered deplorable living conditions while generating profits by forcing its residents to provide laundry services, often resulting in injuries from accidents.
This novel is a powerful reminder that there's usually a chain of events behind someone's bad actions; things are seldom what they seem on the surface. TW: miscarriages, infant death.
Inspired by history, the story is set in 1910-1913 Manhattan/New York at the House of Mercy, an âasylum for abandoned and troubled women.â This church-connected institution, and many like it, offered deplorable living conditions while generating profits by forcing its residents to provide laundry services, often resulting in injuries from accidents.
This novel is a powerful reminder that there's usually a chain of events behind someone's bad actions; things are seldom what they seem on the surface. TW: miscarriages, infant death.
This is one of those books that the story will play over in my head for a few days and prevent me from starting a new book.
It builds slow but then it hits a point were you do not want to put it down. It is easy to read and you go along on the adventure with the girls.
It builds slow but then it hits a point were you do not want to put it down. It is easy to read and you go along on the adventure with the girls.
